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Trump expects Apple to build manufacturing plant in Texas
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How much more vexing are the sassy dismissals that tell the public to rejoice at the prospect of cheaper cars and TV sets, which they can no longer afford, and advise them to seek jobs growing soy beans or servicing bank accounts. This, remember, is a replay of the advice John Bowring gave the member states of the German Zollverein in 1840: grow wheat, and sell it to buy British manufacturers. This was a sublime example of economic good sense; but Germany would have been the poorer for it. Today’s comparative advantage, we have seen, may not be tomorrow’s._David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), 521.
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Trump expects Apple to build manufacturing plant in Texas
American taxpayers and military personnel bear the greatest burdens for keeping the world safe for commerce. If Apple accorded their humanity the respect they do green initiatives, then this would already be done, even if heavy with robotics.My money awaits a Designed in California/Made in the USA Mac Pro! -
Apple's new Mac Pro is being manufactured in China
“It has sometimes been said, that slavery is necessary, because the commodities they raise would be too dear for market if cultivated by freemen; but now it is said that the labor of the slave is dearest” (Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography).“as yet our manufacturers are as much at their ease, as independent & moral as our agricultural inhabitants, and they will continue so as long as there are vacant lands for them to resort to; because whenever it shall be attempted by the other classes to reduce them to the minimum of subsistence, they will quit their trades and go to labouring the earth” (Thomas Jefferson to John Lithgow, January 4, 1805).Supporting freemen is high among my priorities and thereby my budget is prioritized to pay them, to support human rights. I expect better of Apple’s management who live safely ensconced amid liberty while foregoing the opportunity to support their neighbors who bear significant burdens of this liberty but who aren’t among the worlds top “design minds,” neither have available to them “vacant lands … to resort to.”
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Mac Pro's lessons learned will trickle down to all 'Pro' products, says project lead
jumpcutter said:
No one asked for a 6K monitor anyway.I did, and more! In 2015 I wrote Phil Schiller asking for an 10K display: sufficient for 8k images plus palettes, toolbars, and windowing. (I also asked for “it to work with a VESA mount or a standard base”, and Apple delivered beautifully!)In March of 2000 I purchased the original Cinema Display, an outlay of $4,000, and reaped vastly increased productivity. Users of the Apple’s 6K Pro Display XDR will reap a similar harvest. $4,000 in 2000 works out to $5,900+ in 2019; come this fall it should be almost exactly equal to a $4,999 display and a $1,000 stand! :-)In time, with Thunderbolt 4, larger “Retina” displays and higher frame rates on 6K will likely become available, and if so, then I’ll be cheering!(I work with maps and 10,000x10,000 pixel film scans (56mmx56mm), and with any luck Hasselblad will release a 100+ megapixel square format camera).
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Lenovo intros portable 14-inch ThinkVision M14 USB-C monitor
I was thinking along the same lines for email and file access, but with a Mac Pro (in my carry-on) when my large display is overkill (in a shipping case in the cargo hold). This consideration has me hoping for something smaller than the cheese grater design for the new Mac Pro.harmonix23 said:Could be useful with a Mac mini if you just need something to see what it is doing on the go.
